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26 Dead (Or Dying) Gay Bars in NYC, L.A., S.F.

by: Advocate Magazine

February 5, 2016

Cities around the country, and globe, have seen many of their most beloved gay and lesbian watering holes close down — often after the area’s queer population diffuses or the owner simply gets priced out. While many of these bars and clubs were a bit rough around the edges, they nonetheless served as de facto community centers, offering a kind of glue that kept our disparate minority together. In this first entry of an occasional series, we’ll pay honor to dearly-departed LGBT establishments that recently shut their doors in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Stay tuned for more “in memoriums” in other cities.